Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2015/067

An Alternative Approach to Non-black-box Simulation in Fully Concurrent Setting

Susumu Kiyoshima

Abstract: We give a new proof of the existence of public-coin concurrent zero-knowledge arguments for NP in the plain model under standard assumptions (the existence of one-to-one one-way functions and collision-resistant hash functions), which was originally proven by Goyal (STOC'13).

In the proof, we use a new variant of the non-black-box simulation technique of Barak (FOCS'01). An important property of our simulation technique is that the simulator runs in a straight-line manner in the fully concurrent setting. Compared with the simulation technique of Goyal, which also has such a property, the analysis of our simulation technique is (arguably) simpler.

Category / Keywords: foundations / concurrent zero-knowledge, non-black-box simulation

Original Publication (in the same form): IACR-TCC-2015

Date: received 29 Jan 2015

Contact author: kiyoshima susumu at lab ntt co jp

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